{"id":88,"date":"2005-07-12T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=88"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:53:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:53:34","slug":"shield-widening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Shield Widening"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MG and PG Zaku kits all have very slender shields. The MG Zaku shield is about 82mm long and 22mm wide: about a 4:1 length:width ratio. The 08th MS Team HG Zaku kit, on the other hand, has a shield length of 50mm and a width of 20mm: a 5:2 ratio. It’s not as though the HG kit is infallible, but it’s a pretty wild variation between two kits of the same design. I decided that I preferred the wider-looking shield, as it seemed to have the potential to actually block something. As a result, I’ve widened the shield from its original 22mm to 28mm: the new shield is the same width as the HG shield would be if scaled up to 1:100 scale, and about 8mm longer. I’m still undecided as to whether I want to add the spikes to the shield – one the one hand, they are a nice touch, but on the other hand I feel like that starts to pull the design too far from what a “Zaku” is. I’m not sure yet what I’ll ultimately do.<\/p>\n

To widen the shield, I first measured a (more-or-less) center line along the length of the shield, and attempted to cut along it with a razor saw. Then I measured the side walls of the shield (1mm each, so 2mm total) and subtracted that from the final shield width I wanted, and cut a rectangle of styrene that width (26mm) and glued it to the back side of the shield. I re-joined the pieces and filled the gap in this way. I checked my work by measuring and realized that one end of the shield was wider than the other: 28mm at the bottom end and between 28.5mm and 29mm at the top end – so I pulled the parts apart again, trimmed down the styrene plates holding the shield halves together, and reglued it, this time aligning according to measurements. Once I was reasonably happy with the alignment I filled in the remaining gap with more styrene and then polyester putty.
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The MG and PG Zaku kits all have very slender shields. The MG Zaku shield is about 82mm long and 22mm wide: about a 4:1 length:width ratio. The 08th MS Team HG Zaku kit, on the other hand, has a shield length of 50mm and a width of 20mm: a 5:2 ratio. It’s not as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}